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<h1>numpy.ma.MaskedArray.max<a class="headerlink" href="#numpy-ma-maskedarray-max" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>method</p>
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<dt id="numpy.ma.MaskedArray.max">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">MaskedArray.</code><code class="sig-name descname">max</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">self</em>, <em class="sig-param">axis=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">out=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">fill_value=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">keepdims=&lt;no value&gt;</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.18.1/numpy/ma/core.py#L5766-L5831"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#numpy.ma.MaskedArray.max" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the maximum along a given axis.</p>
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<dt class="field-odd">Parameters</dt>
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<dt><strong>axis</strong><span class="classifier">{None, int}, optional</span></dt><dd><p>Axis along which to operate.  By default, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">axis</span></code> is None and the
flattened input is used.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>out</strong><span class="classifier">array_like, optional</span></dt><dd><p>Alternative output array in which to place the result.  Must
be of the same shape and buffer length as the expected output.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>fill_value</strong><span class="classifier">{var}, optional</span></dt><dd><p>Value used to fill in the masked values.
If None, use the output of maximum_fill_value().</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong>keepdims</strong><span class="classifier">bool, optional</span></dt><dd><p>If this is set to True, the axes which are reduced are left
in the result as dimensions with size one. With this option,
the result will broadcast correctly against the array.</p>
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<dt class="field-even">Returns</dt>
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<dt><strong>amax</strong><span class="classifier">array_like</span></dt><dd><p>New array holding the result.
If <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">out</span></code> was specified, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">out</span></code> is returned.</p>
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<dt><a class="reference internal" href="numpy.ma.maximum_fill_value.html#numpy.ma.maximum_fill_value" title="numpy.ma.maximum_fill_value"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">maximum_fill_value</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Returns the maximum filling value for a given datatype.</p>
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